Keth Lv 12VIII (Ket 19)
Beatrice La Farge (ed.) 2017, ‘Ketils saga hœngs 19 (Ketill hœngr, Lausavísur 12)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 569.
ek ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
þóttumz ‘considered myself’
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2. þykkja (verb): seem, think
áðr ‘before’
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áðr (adv.; °//): before
en ‘we [I]’
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2. en (conj.): but, and
hér ‘here’
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hér (adv.): here
kómum ‘came’
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koma (verb; kem, kom/kvam, kominn): come
um ‘on’
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1. um (prep.): about, around
flestar ‘almost’
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fleiri (adj. comp.; °superl. flestr): more, most
[3] flestar allar: om. 471
farir ‘journeys’
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fǫr (noun f.): journey, fate; movement
várar ‘our [my]’
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várr (pron.; °f. ór/vár; pl. órir/várir): our
hvat ‘whatever’
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hvat (pron.): what
[5, 6] hvat sem ferlig flögð um gleipa: hvat er flögð mæla 471
sem ‘’
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sem (conj.): as, which
[5, 6] hvat sem ferlig flögð um gleipa: hvat er flögð mæla 471
ferlig ‘hideous’
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ferligr (adj.; °compar. -(a)ri, superl. -(a)st-)
[5, 6] hvat sem ferlig flögð um gleipa: hvat er flögð mæla 471
flögð ‘ogresses’
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flagð (noun n.): troll-woman
[5, 6] hvat sem ferlig flögð um gleipa: hvat er flögð mæla 471
um ‘’
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2. um (particle): (particle)
[5, 6] hvat sem ferlig flögð um gleipa: hvat er flögð mæla 471
gleipa ‘chatter about’
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gleipa (verb)
[5, 6] hvat sem ferlig flögð um gleipa: hvat er flögð mæla 471
Lastik ‘I speak ill’
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lasta (verb): blame, deride
dreng ‘man’
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drengr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -; -ir, gen. -ja): man, warrior
notes
[7] dæsinn dreng ‘the sluggish man’: The form dæsinn appears only in 471, while 343a and 340ˣ have the reading ‘drasinn’, a form unattested elsewhere. Finnur Jónsson and Kock regard dæsinn as correct (cf. CPB II, 558), and as a variant of the adj. dásinn ‘sluggish’ (LP: dásinn and dæsinn), attested in the negative form ódæsinn ‘unsluggish’ in Arn Magndr 10/2II and Note there, with the vowel secured by aðalhending with ræsir ‘ruler’.
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[7] dæsinn dreng ‘the sluggish man’: The form dæsinn appears only in 471, while 343a and 340ˣ have the reading ‘drasinn’, a form unattested elsewhere. Finnur Jónsson and Kock regard dæsinn as correct (cf. CPB II, 558), and as a variant of the adj. dásinn ‘sluggish’ (LP: dásinn and dæsinn), attested in the negative form ódæsinn ‘unsluggish’ in Arn Magndr 10/2II and Note there, with the vowel secured by aðalhending with ræsir ‘ruler’.
dreif ‘moved forcefully’
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2. drífa (verb; °drífr; dreif, drifu; drifinn): drive, rush
[8] dreif ek (‘dreyf eg’): so 340ˣ, ‘drefic’ 343a, drep ek 471
notes
[8] dreif ek ‘I moved forcefully’: The reading ‘drefik’ in 343a is no doubt a scribal error; 340ˣ has the reading ‘dreyf eg’ (= dreif ek ‘I moved forcefully’), which has been adopted here. Finnur Jónsson (Skj B) emends the verb to the present form drífk (= dríf ek ‘I move forcefully’). A form of the verb drífa ‘drive; rush, move forcefully’ makes better sense in connection with a fishing expedition than does a form of the verb drepa ‘strike’ (471). Kock prefers 471’s reading drep, but it is unclear how the words drep ek á vit fanga are to be translated. Heusler and Ranisch (Edd. Min.) emend to dreg (1st pers. sg. pres. of draga ‘draw, drag, pull’), which has no basis in the ms. tradition: dreg ek á vit fanga ‘I go in search of a catch’.
ek ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
[8] dreif ek (‘dreyf eg’): so 340ˣ, ‘drefic’ 343a, drep ek 471
notes
[8] dreif ek ‘I moved forcefully’: The reading ‘drefik’ in 343a is no doubt a scribal error; 340ˣ has the reading ‘dreyf eg’ (= dreif ek ‘I moved forcefully’), which has been adopted here. Finnur Jónsson (Skj B) emends the verb to the present form drífk (= dríf ek ‘I move forcefully’). A form of the verb drífa ‘drive; rush, move forcefully’ makes better sense in connection with a fishing expedition than does a form of the verb drepa ‘strike’ (471). Kock prefers 471’s reading drep, but it is unclear how the words drep ek á vit fanga are to be translated. Heusler and Ranisch (Edd. Min.) emend to dreg (1st pers. sg. pres. of draga ‘draw, drag, pull’), which has no basis in the ms. tradition: dreg ek á vit fanga ‘I go in search of a catch’.
á ‘in’
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3. á (prep.): on, at
vit ‘search of ’
fanga ‘a catch’
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fang (noun n.; °-s; *-): grasp, tunic
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Ketill identifies himself by name in prose in answer to Forað’s question in Ket 18 and then replies in verse with a long answer to her prose remark that it would be better if he were at home rather than out among the skerries fishing, prefaced by the words: Ketill kvað vísu ‘Ketill spoke a stanza’.
Lines 1-2 are constant, but ll. 3-8 vary considerably in the mss. The text above follows 343a (and 340ˣ), except that they both have the reading ‘drasinn’ rather than dæsinn in l. 7; in the other mss ll. 3-4 are absent, and the remaining two lines read: hirði (or heyrði) ek um eigi | hvat er flögð (or tröll) mæla; | nauðir mik hvöttu; | nauðsyn er at bjarga ‘I don’t care about (or did not hear) whatever ogresses (or trolls) say; necessities incited me, there is need of help’ (cf. Ket 20/3-4 below). Ms. 471 presents the stanza in nearly the same form as 343a and 340ˣ, but the second long-line reads: um farir várar, | hvat er flögð mæla ‘about our journeys, whatever ogresses say’. Both Edd. Min. and Skald prefer 471’s text here, while Skj B collapses 343a’s ll. 3-4 into one line, of flestar allar farar ‘regarding most all [my] journeys’.
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